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But by hts can sustain round and sleep "I need to stop," I tell Lennon
He glances at ht?"
"Just tired"
"Me too, actually Co for me to come closer "I want to check on your hives"
"You just want to gawk at my deformity," I tell him as he lifts the hem of my shirt to reveal a sliver of my stomach The skin there is speckled with raised, pink buht?"
"The sexiest," Lennon agrees, running the backs of his fingers over the puffy welts "Itchy?"
"I’ bad when you’re feeling otI’m a leper?"
He tugs the edge of my shirt back into place "Totally That’s exactly what I’ Please stay away from me and definitely don’t kiss y"
"I knoas just realizing so"
"Oh? What, pray tell?"
"You’re the only person besides Joy who isn’t afraid to touch ious And if you think a few splotches on your skin are going to stophands after e did last night, think again"
"Good I ood, wasn’t it?" he says
A? My ears feel hot And a few other parts oflast fall It wasn’t like this We were friends in the daytied both the secrecy of our relationship and this strange neorld ere exploring together by keeping things separate
Now there’s a different energy A thrilling kind of tension
I know I’y between us I’ve caught hilances atto , and I feel as if I ive soon
There’s that sain "Anyhoo, your hives look a shit-ton better than last night, but you don’t need to overtax your body"
"Is that your scientific opinion, Dr Mackenzie?" Okay, hts Definitely willing to overtaxto help
"Gordon told uy out of here with hives last summer"
"Gordon?" It takes utter and realize it’s the Jaht
"We chatted thisall non-antisocial"
Lennon rolls his eyes humorously and continues "Gordon said that apparently this hiker, he’d never even had hives before, or not in a big way But he was h he could have them in small quantities from ti And that, combined with exhaustionHis throat swelled up so ioedema That’s when your face swells up like a balloon A lot of people with chronic hives have it Luckily, I’ve , but I’m more concerned about the source of the airlift story "You told Gordon aboutto find out if he knehat kind of grass was on that hill It’s velvet grass and oxeye daisies, by the way"